AMQP...not dead?

Erm....

"This is evidence of the seriousness with which VMware takes open source"

Am I the only one failing to see how this constitutes evidence?

Buying a company that releases an Open Source product, doesn't really prove anything except your buying power. Maybe in 12 months, you can use the fact that you haven't relicensed the product as evidence though.

And the talk about open communication in the cloud is a bit of a 'duh' statement.

Loose Lips Sinks Ships and Embattled Cruisers

""We're not really at liberty to talk about it, because most of the common usage is in the financial sector, and those guys tend to be a little secretive," Johnson says."

:-) With the dead head, dead wood guys at the top in that particularly dodgy sector being petrifying paranoid too and increasingly worried about their liberty, or even worse, their future viability and present requirement. And would that be something of their own making, with no one else to blame but themselves?